Heather Solves Everything

Every week I introduce you to smart people with good ideas who can help you solve the everyday problems of life. This week that smart person is Candy Motzek. Candy is a corporate ladder survivor, marking herself safe from a career in engineering where she was really smart and successful, but not fulfilled. So she changed it. She’s now an ICF-certified Professional Coach and her specialty is helping us to gain confidence, get unstuck and out of our own way, and enjoy more meaningful work and lives.

It’s Thanksgiving week! And that means we’re officially in a time of year that I like to call Eating Season.

And here at Heather Solves Everything, all of my coaching calls this week have been about intuitive eating, and how to get through the holidays without losing control around food.

So I decided to put together a special episode just about that, and to offer up five things to think about as you approach the Thanksgiving table.

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Glen Alex is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and the Author of Living In Total Health, which won the Indie Book Award in 2021. She has a mission to help people be more joyful, connected, confident and complete. She is also the guiding spirit behind The Glen Alex Show, GlenAlex.com, Healthy Boundaries for Overwhelmed Women online course, and other services in fulfillment of her transformative mission.

Glen’s health journey began with boundaries. As a child, she was so engag /episode/index/show/7329be1f-8f03-49fe-9548-3fef91c5a2a6/id/27400053

Do you need some space? Some room to breathe? Do you feel like you're on auto-pilot, just going, going, going without any chance to stop and catch up with yourself?

My guest today is Alan Carroll, an Education Psychologist, specializing in Transpersonal Psychology. He is passionate about giving people the experience of mindfulness and presence through public speaking. He has dedicated his life to discovering tools that can help us escape the psychological suffering cause by our Ego and reconne /episode/index/show/7329be1f-8f03-49fe-9548-3fef91c5a2a6/id/27400056

Do you ever feel like you are surrounded by clutter? Do you feel like you can’t get started on a project until your work space is “perfect”? Or are you like me, using decluttering and tidying up as a way to procrastinate?

My guest this week is speaking to you.

Author Connie Ellefson is an engineer and professional organizer working in the Denver metro area. Since 2008, she has helped others discover greater creativity and increase energy that was tied up in unnecessary clutter. /episode/index/show/7329be1f-8f03-49fe-9548-3fef91c5a2a6/id/27400059

Each week I try to bring you a show that sheds light on some of the universal issues that many of us overachievers face in life. Things like maximizing our potential, challenging our own status quo, figuring out how to balance work, life, and play. I believe that you are the expert on yourself, but we are always in a place of learning from each other.

With that in mind, I have invited Kevin Kepple to the show today. He’s a Gallup-certified strengths coach, and I have questions about /episode/index/show/7329be1f-8f03-49fe-9548-3fef91c5a2a6/id/27400062

The fifth habit of Stephen Covey's “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”, is to seek first to understand, then to be understood. It’s a great reminder for interacting with others, but do you listen to understand yourself? In this week’s episode, Alix is sharing how seeking to understand her self-talk and thoughts before responding to them led her to take a different, unexpected course in her journey to greater life balance. Can you relate?

After raising her three sons, Eileen went on an unrelenting campaign to educate herself and experience life to the fullest; earning her bachelor’s degree from California State University, at the young age of 50. 

Since then Eileen has gone on to become One of the first people to be certified in NLP by Tony Robbins, /episode/index/show/7329be1f-8f03-49fe-9548-3fef91c5a2a6/id/27400071

My guest today is Leslie Davis, and if you’re a go-getting over-achieving accomplishment junkie like me, you’re going to LOVE HER. She told me that about 20 years ago I came up with a mantra that I did not want to be 80 years old, sitting on my front porch saying, “I wish I would have.”

Since turning 50, she has taken up scuba diving, gone riding in a hot air balloon, traveled to Zimbabwe multiple times by herself, gone on about 10 mission trips, lost almost 100 lbs, taken up w /episode/index/show/7329be1f-8f03-49fe-9548-3fef91c5a2a6/id/27400074

This week is a bit of a how it started/how it’s going episode with our friend Alix. If you don’t know, Alix is spending 2022 working on better balance in her life, and sharing her experience on the podcast so we can all learn and grow in our own lives. 

In our last conversation, Alix was focused on prioritizing self care during the wild west days of summer as a mom of young kids, when every week is different and life can feel like more of a roller coaster than usual.

Today, w /episode/index/show/7329be1f-8f03-49fe-9548-3fef91c5a2a6/id/27400077

We all have things that we dwell on, cringing to ourselves when we think back to stupid, embarassing, or regretful choices we’ve made. In fact, the feeling of regret has been identified as an emotion we feel as early as the age of two year old. 

Especially for those of us who identify as perfectionists, we can really beat ourselves up for not choosing what we realize later would have been a wiser option. I probably should have majored in something different, should have gone to law schoo /episode/index/show/7329be1f-8f03-49fe-9548-3fef91c5a2a6/id/27400080

Today my guest is Winnie Bien Aime, Founder and CEO of Thrive Unburdened, a mental health counseling and life coaching company serving some of the unique needs in our mental health space. Winnie is a licensed mental health therapist providing services to clients living in Alaska, Florida, and Louisiana.

Winnie works primarily with teenage girls and women struggling with anxiety, depression, and trauma related issues. Her approach to therapy is one that is holistic, drawing on theories such as cogni /episode/index/show/7329be1f-8f03-49fe-9548-3fef91c5a2a6/id/27400083

Today my guest is Lisa DeLugo, a fellow podcaster who is also a runner, a mom, a business owner, and the owner of Ella-Go, where she empowers women through fitness, health and everything in between. But beyond that, she is a single mom with an active daughter, who started a journey to better health in her 30's, proving that it is never too late to start something new.

Now she’s like us, juggling work, motherhood, life stress, all the things. She is a certified running coach, health coach and /episode/index/show/7329be1f-8f03-49fe-9548-3fef91c5a2a6/id/27400086

Hear from Erik and Joanna Olsen, founders of Whirly Board, a startup company that began in a small-town Wisconsin garage in 2014 and founded on the belief that time spent riding a board is directly proportional to quality of life. And we talk about that, but also about how these two entrepreneurs, who are also married and parents of two, balance work, life, growth, and their own health and sense of purpose. This is a great episode for anyone who wants to chase their dreams and needs a dose of inspiration /episode/index/show/7329be1f-8f03-49fe-9548-3fef91c5a2a6/id/27400089

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Proving that it’s never too late to pursue a passion, my guest today is an Army Reservist, a philanthropist, a pianist, and mixed media artist with a gift that you have to see. I’m happy to introduce today, Quia Z. Atkinson. 

I first learned about Quia when I started seeing her art on Facebook. .

And she is on a mission to brighten the world one painting at a time. Atkinson has always been on the move. Growing up with two parents in the Marines, she had attended eleven school /episode/index/show/7329be1f-8f03-49fe-9548-3fef91c5a2a6/id/27400095

If you’ve ever interacted with literally anyone who works in coaching or motivational work, I’ll bet they have told you that you need to know your WHY. We are super obnoxious that way. But, it’s true! 

Today I want to share with you some ideas for discovering not just your why, but your how and when, as well.

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I’m talking to Dana Brooks, a Tallahassee-based attorney with Fasig Brooks and auth /episode/index/show/7329be1f-8f03-49fe-9548-3fef91c5a2a6/id/27400104

Do you rely on your intuition? Do you know how to trust it… or wish that you could? My guest in this episode can help. 

Casey Edmonds has over 15 years of experience in the health and wellness industry, working in corporate wellness, clinical medicine, and lifestyle health. As a Soul Level Intuitive Coach and Health and Wellness Coach, she enjoys supporting individuals in spiritual growth, self evolution, and meaning and purpose work that drives action in the here and now. With a Master' /episode/index/show/7329be1f-8f03-49fe-9548-3fef91c5a2a6/id/27400107

Living in balance is an art - part planning, part visioning, and part adapting in the moment. 

In this episode, I talk with fellow entrepreneur Adam Kaye to discuss how he creates balance in the midst of building a family-owned business focused on creating an art space from 200,000 square feet on almost 20 acres of land across 3 separate locations within the city's urban core. 

His path began when he inherited a warehouse complex at the age of 16 upon the passing of his mother. /episode/index/show/7329be1f-8f03-49fe-9548-3fef91c5a2a6/id/27400110

Deepak Chopra is credited with saying that, “People are doing the best that they can from their own level of consciousness.” It’s a concept that’s been used to help us develop patience and compassion for others. I love showing patience and compassion for others. It makes me feel like a really good person, and it helps me manage my emotions and energy.

But as driven, ambitious, hard-working people, it’s a lot harder to use it as a way to develop patience and compassion with ourselves. /episode/index/show/7329be1f-8f03-49fe-9548-3fef91c5a2a6/id/27400113